Scientists have spotted an orangutan using medicinal plants to tend to its own wounds. A male Sumatran orangutan named Rakus was observed by German and Indonesian scientists chewing up the leaves of a ...
Observers have documented multiple animal species using plants for self-medicinal purposes, such as great apes eating plants ...
As our closest non-human relatives, primates remain some of the smartest creatures in the animal kingdom. And they continue ...
Scientists have been observing a male Sumatran orangutan named Rakus in Indonesia's Gunung Leuser National Park since 2009. In June 2022, they noticed he had a facial wound.
Self-medicating in animals has been reported before, but scientists noted something particularly special when they observed a ...
For the first time, scientists observed a primate in the wild treating a wound with a plant that has medicinal properties.
Yet this was no ordinary medical treatment. The orangutan — dubbed "Rakus" by the scientists at Indonesia's Gunung Leuser ...
Biologists from the Max Planck Institute of Animal Behavior, Konstanz, Germany and Universitas Nasional, Indonesia observed a large male orangutan self-medicating—using a paste of chewed up plants ...
The findings represent the first report of wound treatment by a wild animal using a plant with known medicinal properties.
(Por Douglas Main - Science Times) - En una reserva forestal de Indonesia, unos científicos observaron a un orangután macho salvaje frotándose repetidamente una herida facial con hojas ...